Jack Monroe #236 You absolute whelksplat!

[Marmalade Atkins]

I was just looking for the photo of the cupboard under the stairs (27th October 2020). I didn't find it, but I did find this absolute beauty:

screenshot @Silver Linings

 

[Valiofthedolls]

So let me get this right. Per her new book, Jack’s been “faithfully hoarding bubble wrap for years” and “keeping it under the stairs” (in bin bags)? All the while keeping (he’s DEAD) Grandad’s battered sentimental pans and her sole copies of recipes-all of which are irreplaceable- in the garage?

So Jack’s house is full of bin bags of totally replaceable irrelevant shite, and their garage is (or was until burglary) full of boxes of…totally irreplaceable irrelevant shite?!

FML What a fucking plum.

ETA also thinking of it, how is there an “under the stairs”? I thought chateau Monroe was a bungalow?

 

[Falkor]

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ICO squiggle attacks!

Right, I'm calling it - 2022 is definitely the Year of the Squiggle Uprising.

 

[Pocahontas]

Ooft, hello handsome. The way she objectifies men on the Internet is nearly as bad as me.
#andimawful

(I’m loving hashtags today)

 

[Salmonshirt]

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I have been driven to finally comment on these threads as I’ve discovered Jack has the same crockery as me. You can find me howling in the corner.

 

[Rekyavikgirl]

Put it out of it’s misery and recycle it (in the bin).

I have been known to buy cheap copies of Monroe's books from charity shops/bookstalls, take them home and chuck them. I feel very strongly that people on lower incomes should not fall victim to poorly-tested, incorrect recipes. When you read how other food writers neurotically test their recipes and go out of their way to amend the odd error (which happens!), Monroe's slovenly ways appal me even more.

 

[Flip_Flops]

hello! New here but been on a massive catch up via the fish era and titmas eve ~ just been ’enjoying‘ make up artist jack
what has really come to annoy me is (amongst many things) the volume of lies and mistruths and blurring of reality to fit the narrative
the overuse of words also annoys me ~ an example being the words to describe the face washing - it can’t just be with water and a flannel it’s got to be hot hot, clean,cheap, scrubby etc etc we know that you shouldn’t clean your face with a dirty flannel so why feel you have to say it, i know poverty is jacks angle but why point out that it’s cheap
sorry on a rant here but I’m confused as to why a few bits of fish on one slice of toast is considered a substantial meal on a budget - what about some jazzy jacket potatoes, hearty soups, pasta etc there are more nutritional and better value foods out there?
Also I’m mortified that my home city has been involved in that awful stinky poo pudding
theres so much more that confuses me about the tale of jack but this is long enough!
however could a kind Frau explain or point me in the direction of the go Henry chaos (I keep seeing it mentioned on here) while I have a lie down after getting all of Out of my system!

 

[MancBee]

Can we move on from talking about stuffing...

Please. Pretty please.

I am having flashbacks.

 

[Nottonightbabe]

earlier in the threads I made that recipe of hers with the ‘buerre blanc’ in. It was nothing like buerre blanc. It wasn’t totally inedible but iirc portion size was way off and I’ve definitely never wanted to make it again, let alone be served it in a ‘high falutin’ restaurant.



More morning holiday searches while Mr F snores reveals this gem. Obviously jars, eucalyptus and oranges are free somewhere and salt is salt is salt. We are going to a luxury spa tomorrow (the short break is instead of our cancelled holiday abroad) and if anything like this turns up anywhere near me I will break Tripadviser.

Laying in a bath of Saxa and twigs is not really what I'd call a luxury spa.

 

[Into_the_tunnel]

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Stop joking about rehab. The NHS is on its knees and the majority of people cannot access MH support in the timeframe that they need.

Please, just stop.

 

[Legionnairess]

Nail. On. Head

This is a repeat post I forgot to squiggle the other squiggles.

 

[ChickenPorridge]

I bloody love Rylan.

Love Rylan too, seems a genuine fella. Anyone remember when Jack invited herself to an argument with him, I think it was regarding food bank donation in one of his shows?

ETA: Found the screenies. He politely handed her her arse back

 

[heretoreaditall2019]

Mo Gilligan has actually donated a fee to a charity & featured them on his Insta. Imagine if the people’s poverty activist did this for the BBC show, the Unilever gig, the Del Monte gig, just anything she’s managed to get through misrepresenting poor people in the UK.

 

[Bumbear]

Caroline was an ego stroking personal branding project from Jack. She exists in the one set of accounts filed said the profit generating activist’s Ltd company had two employees, the same Ltd is also on the gov’s furlough docs as having claimed for someone and iirc you can’t claim *furlough* as a director but you could get the grants/loans?

She tried to turn the GoHenry shit onto them by claiming we’d compromised the account and GH should review their security procedures Hun if any of us could get into bank accounts without a trace we wouldn’t be targeting GoHenry’s pocket money hauls I can promise you that !

Hiya HTRIA

It was possible to claim furlough as a director - I personally did, because I had no client work for 6 months. Which leads me to a horrible thought - I hope Jack did not claim it for herself. I can't fully remember what you had to complete in terms of paperwork - I think it was just a declaration to say you had no material work for x amount of time - then my accountant processed my furlough pay (meagre, as I mostly pay myself in dividends not PAYE).

Anyway I don't want to start a scurrilous rumour, but we saw the evidence that On a Bootstrap Ltd was on the list that claimed, and she said she paid Caroline of the hands herself (although that makes no real sense). I also hope that isn't the reason the accounts haven't been done for that year, because they would show she did in fact have paid work during the time furlough was claimed...

I feel awful for even typing this as surely it cannot be...

 

[LennyBriscoe]

I always appreciate your take on AA stuff (& @TurnedUpInTipp's, @LennyBriscoe's, although I know our favourite detective is taking a well-deserved break from the thread). Honestly it's great to have Frauen here who have worked the programme and turned their lives around, if anyone vulnerable is reading this you guys always have practical things to say, which is a million miles from Jack's dangerous claptrap.

Happy New Year to the best Grifter Hunters in the world!

Thank you for your lovely words @colouredlines, I miss you guys . On reading HTRIA’s post I sense that at best things are just as bad or at worse, worse. It was AA/Recovery Jack that tipped me over the edge tbh - it exposed to me how much the programme can be manipulated to suit someone’s own needs and she’s a charlatan when it comes to boiling pasta so it’s awful to see her with access to vulnerable people.

With the instances of tweets being recovered from the past on a few subjects here, I’ve found myself on a couple of new threads. I’m sure if there was anything from Jack’s past of a bigoted nature it would’ve been uncovered by now! On one of the threads they mentioned the Twitter way back archive thing and I was like “aha!! I’ve heard of that!”

Hope you guys have all had a good Christmas and new year

 

[Mr Krabs]

Toofypegs is giving me rage.

how can someone look so pissed off to be in Barcelona? I get it you need solitude to write - most people stay in their room, or a library study space. Virginia Woolf had a shed. Not Spain for a month. Brat.

Virginia not virginal…

Owned Jones is a very clever special socialist man. He needs an expensive trip in order to write his next special book which you WILL agree with completely or you’re a big stinky Tory bigot. *Blocks*

 

[Veronicaaa]

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I see Kirsty's faved just about every response here apart from the ones saying Jack's their crush
ETA Jack has of course faved every response saying she's their crush. She's the only one to have done so.

 

[PinkMariner]

Did that adult just use the word "toofypegs" to another adult? In public, on the internet, where everyone can see it?

I...... I am stumped.

 

[CabalofBolorneaise]

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She's really skirting several lines of actual trouble almost constantly at the moment, it must genuinely be very very stressful for her... not that I feel bad because it's all completely and utterly self-inflicted, but just imagine how much easier her life would be if she just did things properly like everyone else.

 

[Ninch55]

She literally plays poor. She always puts on her tattiest clothes and no make up face when she's the spokeperson for the poors.

Wannabe Champagne Socialist. Actual Kombucha Gobshite.